- From: Mike Scott <mscott@msfw.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:00:54 -0600
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Randy, Kynn... There were some early ambiguous claims about Netscape 6 that may have led to this confusion: Netscape 6 does not support ALL the functionality of the label tag that IE does -- in particular you cannot click on text identified as a label and have focus go to the corresponding field (you can in IE). This led to some ambiguous claims that "Netscape 6 does not support <label>". While Netscape does not (yet) support this enhanced capability of the label element, it definitely does still display text marked up with the label tag (at least with the current Netscape 6.2 -- who knows what some of those buggy early versions may have done...) So, Kynn is correct -- You can use the label tag for all it's worth in IE (and other browsers that support it) while doing no harm to Netscape 6.2 Mike Mike Scott MSF&W Information Technology Solutions 217 698-3535 / 217 698-1353 TTY www.msfw.com -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kynn Bartlett Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:07 PM To: RUST Randal Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: Netscape At 2:11 PM -0500 1/14/02, RUST Randal wrote: >i'm saying i'd possibly have to recommend to clients that netscape >might cause them to be in non-compliant with section 508. How would Netscape cause them to be non-compliant with Section 508? What you are saying is terribly confusing. There's no reason that you would remove <label> (and thus be out of compliance with Section 508) merely because Netscape does not support it. >netscape 6 does not display anything that is wrapped in a <label> tag. It doesn't? What makes you say that? Are you saying that Netscape 6 does the equivalent of this? label { display: none; } ...or are you saying something different? --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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